| Boeckman: Gateway Market opening for business
Next Tuesday is the scheduled opening day for the Gateway Market, the European-style market located on the former site of the Metro Market, at Woodland Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
Among the market's products and services are gourmet specialty food items; fresh meats, including those from Niman Ranch, and a butcher; fresh seafood and sushi; a cheese and olive bar; a wine and beer shop with a wine-tasting bar; catering and delivery; prepared salads and entrees and takeout meals; a coffee bar; and a 120-seat cafe where meals will be served. Cafe patrons can order frittatas and breakfast sandwiches; salads and sandwiches; pizzas and pasta and other daily seasonal entrees.
South Union Bakery has relocated its baking operation to the site and will be supplying at least 12 types of breads for the market.
Gorgonzola chicken flatbread, $11
They say your culinary tastes get more sophisticated as you get older, and now that I'm looking at my late twenties, I've found this to be true. Since graduating from college, I've traveled the world--or at least my tastebuds have. And I can now officially say that I've eaten my first falafel.
Mediza's sampler is perfect to try a little of this and a little of that. It's a platter of tahini, hummus, baba ghanouj and crispy falafel patties, served up with warm, pillowy pita bread. Any cuisine that highlights carbohydrates and dips is all right in my book.
I started off by making a mini-sandwich of falafel and the three spreads on a pita, but that didn't give me a chance to immediately savor each flavor on its own. The falafel was satisfyingly crunchy, though, and the three sauces lent a great creamy texture to my little creation.
Commentary: Contracting Out the Troop Death Tolls
She wasn't talking about the handful of mercenaries out doing battle on the front lines. She was talking about the 130,000 contractors (according to Defense News) doing battle on the chow lines, the truck lines, the supply lines and PX lines in Iraq. Everywhere you go in the Green Zone and on all the military bases in Iraq, you see “contractors" doing jobs that were formerly done by soldiers. In Vietnam, the soldiers themselves did all these jobs. The supply clerks were soldiers. The janitors were soldiers. The sentries were soldiers. There were soldiers on KP, in the motor pool, in the offices, on guard duty, manning checkpoints, on the road. Now all that work is being done by contractors. Yet, to paraphrase Shakespeare, “When you cut them, do they not also bleed?" “The reason there are significantly lower numbers of troop deaths in Iraq now than there were in Vietnam is because of our more efficient body armor," everyone tells me.
FreshDirect And Rosa Mexicano Launch Exclusive Line of Chef ...
NEW YORK, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- FreshDirect, one of the nation's leading online gourmet food purveyors and delivery services, continues to evolve its selection of prepared foods by launching all-new "Fresh Dining" meals and ready-to-grill items created in partnership with renowned New York City restaurant, Rosa Mexicano. Award-winning chef Roberto Santibanez, Culinary Director of Rosa Mexicano, recently collaborated with FreshDirect's chefs to create a selection of savory, restaurant-worthy dishes perfect for any fiesta. "FreshDirect is delighted to be working with Rosa Mexicano and its talented culinary director, chef Roberto Santibanez," said Steve Michaelson president and CEO of FreshDirect. "The meals in this new line are not only delicious and flavorful, but bring customers an easy way to enjoy authentic home-style Mexican cuisine in the comfort of their own homes." Packaging for the new "Fresh Dining by Rosa Mexicano" features a special valve designed to steam the meal, allowing a variety of raw ingredients to be cooked together.
Two large gourmet markets will test DM's appetite
There's an explosion of artisan breads, organic fruits and vegetables, exotic cheeses and a selection of homemade gourmet dishes with hard-to-pronounce names happening in the metro.
Specialty and gourmet foods have long been available in small shops in Des Moines, like sausage at Graziano Bros., durian fruits at Double Dragon Food Market on Second Avenue and pierogis (Polish dumplings) at European Flavors in Windsor Heights.
But now two new shops will offer foodies new outlets for hard-to-find ingredients, natural and organic foods and extensive wine selections.
Popular in larger cities and on the East and West Coasts, large gourmet shops like the Market at Jordan Creek and Gateway Market are popular because more people want organic and natural foods, which these types of markets specialize in, said Jerry Fleagle, president of the Iowa Grocery Industry Association.
Pinch Plus Organic Herbs and Spices of Wooster, Ohio Named "Best ...
PLEASANTVILLE, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 11, 2007 -- Pinch Plus Organic Herb and Spice Company of Wooster, Ohio has been named "Best of America" by the editors of Reader's Digest magazine. This celebration of the quirky, amazing and truly extraordinary is featured in the May issue, on newsstands April 17. After speaking to hundreds of experts and ordinary folk, the editors tested, tasted and debated everything from the Best Gotta-Have-It Brownie to the Best Lasting Logo to the Best Athlete's Feat. The resulting list covers the Arts, Media, Business & Finance, Health, Food, Science & Technology, Society & Culture, Sports & Fitness, Transportation, Travel and more. .
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